How are young gymnasts in Truckee making their mark in the sport. What recent achievements have Truckee gymnasts accomplished. How has the gymnastics landscape in the US evolved in recent years.
Truckee’s Gymnastic Triumphs: A Season of Success
The world of gymnastics in South Lake Tahoe and the surrounding areas is buzzing with excitement as young athletes demonstrate their prowess on the mat. In a remarkable display of skill and dedication, Truckee’s gymnastic team has made significant strides this season, culminating in an impressive showing at the state championships and securing spots for the upcoming regional championships.
With a team of 58 gymnasts, Truckee has been a force to be reckoned with in the competitive circuit. These young athletes have participated in over a dozen competitions since August, showcasing their talents across Northern California and Reno. Their hard work and determination have paid off, with 29 gymnasts qualifying for the state championships – a testament to the high standards set by USA Gymnastics.
State Championship Highlights
The state championships, held in Oroville and McClellan, saw Truckee’s gymnasts rise to the occasion. In Oroville, where more than 400 gymnasts from Northern California competed in the Xcel Bronze category, Adie Vaughan stood out with a third-place finish on vault. Meanwhile, at McClellan, which hosted 40 Xcel Silver, Gold, and Platinum teams, Truckee’s athletes continued to shine:
- Violet Fillinger secured a third-place All Around medal in Xcel Silver, also taking third on vault
- Lilian Goddard placed third on beam in Xcel Silver
- Kaya Siig claimed first place on bars in Xcel Gold
- Ashley Moore took first place on vault in Xcel Gold
- Samantha Milne earned second places on vault and floor in Xcel Gold
- Alexandra Oliva scored third place on beam in Xcel Gold
- Abby Winterberger secured third place on bars in Xcel Gold
- Maddie Sloane placed third on beam in Xcel Platinum
Truckee’s Road to Regional Championships
The success at the state level has paved the way for an even greater challenge. An impressive 21 athletes from Truckee qualified for the regional championships, with 16 planning to attend the prestigious event in San Diego this May. This three-day extravaganza will host 2,700 participants from across the West Coast, providing an excellent platform for Truckee’s gymnasts to showcase their skills on a larger stage.
How do gymnasts prepare for such a high-stakes competition? The preparation for the Xcel Regionals involves rigorous training, mental conditioning, and fine-tuning of routines. Coaches work closely with the athletes to ensure they are at their peak performance level, both physically and mentally, when they step onto the competition floor in San Diego.
The Evolution of Truckee Gymnastics
Truckee Gymnastics is celebrating a significant milestone – its 15th year of training and supporting athletes in the Truckee Tahoe area. The growth of the program has been remarkable, particularly in its competitive coaching division. What started as a small group of seven athletes just five years ago has blossomed into a thriving community of over 50 competitive gymnasts.
This growth reflects not only the increasing popularity of gymnastics in the region but also the quality of coaching and facilities provided by Truckee Gymnastics. The program continues to welcome new talent, offering team tryouts every spring for girls aged seven and older with some gymnastics experience.
The Changing Face of USA Gymnastics
While local programs like Truckee Gymnastics continue to flourish, the broader landscape of USA Gymnastics has undergone significant changes in recent years. The retirement of Martha Karolyi, the former national team coordinator, marked a turning point in the sport’s culture at the highest levels.
How has the atmosphere in elite gymnastics evolved? The shift is palpable, with a more relaxed and athlete-centric approach replacing the intense, high-pressure environment of the past. This change is evident in the camaraderie and spontaneous moments of joy seen among gymnasts at national championships, such as the impromptu dance party that broke out at a recent event.
A New Balance in Training
MyKayla Skinner, an alternate on the 2016 Olympic team and a competitor in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, notes the positive changes in the training environment. “The trainings are actually kind of a lot more fun and not — I mean, it’s still stressful, but it’s not as stressful as it used to be,” Skinner observes. This shift towards a more balanced approach aims to support the mental and emotional well-being of athletes while still maintaining the high standards of performance required at the elite level.
The Simone Biles Perspective: Striking the Right Balance
Despite the positive changes, some concerns have been raised about finding the right balance in this new era of gymnastics. Simone Biles, widely regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time, has expressed her thoughts on the matter. While she embraces the push for a more athlete-centric environment, Biles also raises an important question: Has the pendulum swung too far, too fast?
Biles’ concern stems from the potential impact on coaching effectiveness. In a sport where coaches play a crucial role in molding young talents into champions, there’s a delicate balance to be struck between creating a supportive environment and maintaining the discipline and rigor necessary for success at the highest levels.
The Future of Gymnastics: Balancing Fun and Excellence
As the sport of gymnastics continues to evolve, programs like Truckee Gymnastics serve as excellent examples of how to nurture young talent while fostering a positive and supportive environment. The challenge moving forward will be to maintain this balance at all levels of the sport, from local programs to elite national teams.
How can gymnastics programs strike the right balance between fun and excellence? Some key strategies include:
- Prioritizing athlete well-being alongside performance goals
- Incorporating team-building activities and moments of levity into training sessions
- Providing mental health support and resources for athletes
- Encouraging open communication between coaches, athletes, and parents
- Regularly reassessing training methods to ensure they align with best practices in athlete development
Kindergym at Inversion Gym: Nurturing Young Talent
While Truckee Gymnastics focuses on competitive gymnastics for older children, programs like Kindergym at Inversion Gym in South Lake Tahoe play a crucial role in introducing younger children to the sport. Catering to kids ages 3 to 5, Kindergym provides a fun and safe environment for little ones to develop their physical skills and love for movement.
What benefits does early gymnastics training offer young children? Early exposure to gymnastics can help develop:
- Balance and coordination
- Strength and flexibility
- Spatial awareness
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Social skills through interaction with peers
Programs like Kindergym serve as a foundation for future gymnasts, potentially feeding into competitive programs like Truckee Gymnastics as children grow older and develop their skills.
The Impact of Gymnastics on Youth Development
Beyond the realm of competition, gymnastics offers numerous benefits for youth development. The discipline, dedication, and physical skills learned through gymnastics can have a lasting positive impact on children’s lives.
How does gymnastics contribute to overall child development? Some key areas of impact include:
- Physical fitness and body awareness
- Mental toughness and resilience
- Time management and goal-setting skills
- Teamwork and sportsmanship
- Improved focus and concentration
As programs like Truckee Gymnastics and Kindergym at Inversion Gym continue to thrive, they not only produce talented gymnasts but also contribute to the overall well-being and development of youth in the South Lake Tahoe area.
The future of gymnastics in the region looks bright, with a new generation of athletes ready to tumble, flip, and soar their way to success. As the sport continues to evolve, the balance between nurturing talent and maintaining competitive excellence will be key to ensuring its long-term growth and sustainability.
Truckee qualifies 21 gymnasts to regional championships
Truckee qualified 21 gymnasts to the regional championships this May in San Diego.
Courtesy photoTruckee gymnasts pose after competing at the state championships.
Courtesy photoTruckee qualified 21 gymnasts to the regional championships this May in San Diego.
Courtesy photoTruckee qualified 21 gymnasts to the regional championships this May in San Diego.
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As USA college gymnasts are making news for their outstanding routines at recent meets, budding gymnasts in Truckee are striving for the best.
Truckee’ team of 58 gymnasts competed in more than a dozen competitions this season, all culminating in the recent state championships and the upcoming regional championships next month in San Diego.
Seasonal meets in Reno and Northern California began last August and went through the winter. With every meet, gymnasts had the opportunity to qualify for the state championships by achieving high scoring standards set by USA Gymnastics. Truckee had 29 state championship qualifiers, who then traveled to Oroville and McClellan to compete in Xcel States.
In Oroville for Xcel Bronze, where more than 400 gymnasts from Northern California attended, Truckee gymnast Adie Vaughan rose to the occasion and placed third on vault.
Nearby, McClellan hosted 40 Xcel Silver, Gold and Platinum teams from all over Northern California. In Xcel Silver, Violet Fillinger secured her third-place All Around medal by taking third on vault. Fellow teammate Lilian Goddard also placed third on beam. Xcel Gold winners included Kaya Siig with a first-place finish on bars and Ashley Moore placing first on vault. Samantha Milne from Truckee earned second places on vault and floor, Alexandra Oliva scored third place on beam and Abby Winterberger swung into third place on bars. Maddie Sloane placed third on beam in Xcel Platinum.
Each of Truckee’s 21 athletes at the championships qualified for the regional championships. Of those, 16 plan on attending, and will begin preparation for the Xcel Regionals in San Diego this May. The three-day event hosts 2,700 participants from across the West Coast.
Truckee Gymnastics is celebrating its 15th year training and supporting athletes in the Truckee Tahoe area and said they are looking forward to many more. The facility began competitive coaching five years ago with seven athletes, growing to more than 50 to date. All girls ages seven and older with some gymnastics experience are welcome to team tryouts, to be held every spring.
Too much, too soon? USA Gymnastics in midst of culture shift
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The U.S. gymnastics championships were over. The pressure — mercifully if only momentarily — gone. On the floor at Dickies Arena, Olympic hopefuls milled about aimlessly. Some talked. Some grabbed their phones. Others searched the stands for their families.
Jordan Chiles did what she usually does when there’s a lull in the action. She danced. Soon, a couple joined in. Then a few more. Then a few more. Within a minute or two, nearly the entire group was doing “The Cha Cha Slide” for all the world to see.
Martha Karolyi’s program, this is not.
The vibe around the top level of the sport in the United States has loosened in the five years since the highly successful yet highly divisive national team coordinator retired. The impromptu flash mob at national championships last month offered a symbolic if somewhat superficial glimpse at how the landscape is evolving.
“I feel like the trainings are actually kind of a lot more fun and not — I mean, it’s still stressful, but it’s not as stressful as it used to be,” said MyKayla Skinner, an alternate on the 2016 Olympic team who will be one of six American women competing in Tokyo this month.
Still, the greatest gymnast of all time wonders if the pendulum has swung too far, too fast.
Simone Biles has embraced the long-overdue push to create a more athlete-centric environment. Her concern, however, is that the sport’s brave new world might make it difficult for the coaches hired to mold prodigies into champions to effectively do their jobs.
“I think the culture shift is happening, but it’s almost as if the athletes almost have too much power and the coaches can’t get a rein on it,” Biles told The Associated Press in May. “So then it’s kind of wild. It’s like a horse out of the barn: You can’t get it back in.”
Biles, among the most outspoken critics of USA Gymnastics in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal and herself a Nassar survivor, is not complaining. It’s unlikely she would have returned to the sport in late 2017 if Karolyi was still in charge. Things needed to change.
Yet the 24-year-old is also acutely aware of the pressure that follows when the perennially loaded U.S. team is on the international stage.
The Americans have produced the last four Olympic all-around gold medalists and captured every major team title since the 2011 world championships, a streak they are heavily favored to extend in Tokyo thanks in large part to Biles’ unmatched brilliance.
The question is what comes next. How will one of the gold standards of the U.S. Olympic movement foster a healthy, positive climate and a competitive one at the same time?
The two are not mutually exclusive by any stretch. Biles need only point to her relationship with former coach Aimee Boorman and current coaches Laurent and Cecile Landi as proof. Yet she also knows her experience is not exactly commonplace for a sport in the middle of a reckoning.
Gymnastics federations from the U.S. to Great Britain to Australia are grappling with their own version of a #MeToo movement as athletes in each country have come forward to detail a culture they viewed as toxic. Despite measures by leadership to push USA Gymnastics forward, the Nassar fallout isn’t going away anytime soon.
Even as Biles and her teammates flew to Tokyo on Wednesday, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-awaited report that pointed out repeated failures by the FBI to properly investigate Nassar while making sure not to let the organization off the hook.
The air needs to be cleared. It’s one of the many reasons why World Champions Centre is awash in floor-to-ceiling windows. There are 36 cameras placed throughout the 50,000 square-foot facility in the northern Houston suburbs, each with the volume turned all the way up.
“Everything needs to be visible, and the coaches know that,” said Nellie Biles, who opened the gym to give daughter Simone a place to train. “The coaches know that they are watched at all times, not only from the viewing arena but by cameras. They know that. That should not distract from what they’re doing if they’re doing their job. They just know that there are cameras and they know that nothing is a secret. So yeah, just do whatever is right and you don’t even have to worry that anyone is watching you.”
That level of transparency — as necessary as it may be — has created an athlete-coach dynamic that’s a marked departure from what Laurent Landi grew up with while training and competing for France in the 1990s.
“Now kids sometimes, you don’t want to offend them, so you tiptoe,” said Landi, who is serving as the head coach of the U.S. women in Japan.
While Landi made it a point to praise USA Gymnastics for being proactive in its attempt to make things safer for athletes at all levels, he also is wary.
Yes, the gymnasts need to be empowered. At the same time, the Olympics don’t hand out participation trophies. Biles headlines a group expected to come home with a fistful of medals. Anything less would be a disappointment.
Winning might not be the sole focus anymore, but it still needs to be in the conversation.
“You need expectations,” Landi said. “I don’t think right now there is expectation. Before the expectation was (under Karolyi), they were not said. We were not told. But we knew the expectation. Everybody knows the expectation.”
Landi laughed as he completed the sentence, a glimpse at the thorny relationship the U.S. program has with its recent past. Karolyi took over a program in disarray in 2001 and turned it into one of the most dominant forces in any Olympic sport, using an authoritarian approach that some Nassar survivors say contributed to allowing the former national team doctor’s behavior to run unchecked for years.
While USA Gymnastics has undergone a drastic overhaul since the 2016 Olympics — current president Li Li Leung is the fourth person to hold the position since the closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro — the external standards have not.
Biles wonders if that level will be sustainable at least in the short term after Tokyo as the organization searches for middle ground.
“It’s hard for a country to stay on top for so many years,” she said. “So I do believe there will be a little bit of a downfall but then go back up again because there will be that cultural change that you’ll have to go through. I don’t think the results will always be the same because so much will be going on at one time when you can’t get control of it. That’s my only worry.”
Finding the right balance is difficult. It’s also where real, substantive, long-lasting transformation lies.
Dancing after a meet is one thing. What happens near the end of another muscle-sapping, mentally-draining practice on an anonymous Tuesday is another.
“There’s a time to coddle, a time to be positive, but sometimes you’ve got to hold the law,” said Tom Meadows, an elite men’s coach at Cypress Academy in Houston. “You tell them, ‘You say you want to do this? Well let’s go.'”
It’s a conversation Biles has had with her coaches in some form or another for years. She isn’t sure how long it might take for the next wave to understand the difference between constructive criticism from a coach designed to maximize an athlete’s potential and criticism that crosses over into the personal, or worse.
Biles wants all sports to eradicate the latter.
She’s still an advocate, however, for the former.
“There’s a big line on what you can and can’t do, what you can and can’t say to these kids rather than whenever I was growing up,” Biles said. “I would say (back then): ‘OK, you say that. I’m pissed off but I’m going to do my work.’ Now it’s like, I’ve even told the other girls: ‘Don’t take it to heart. They don’t mean to say that to you. So just let it roll off your shoulder.’”
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Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US
BLY, Oregon (AP) — The largest wildfire in the U.S. torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday, one of dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in the coming days.
The destructive Bootleg Fire just north of the California border grew to more than 476 square miles (1,210 square kilometers), an area about the size of Los Angeles.
Erratic winds fed the blaze, creating dangerous conditions for firefighters, said John Flannigan, an operations section chief on the 2,000-person force battling the flames.
“Weather is really against us,” he said. “It’s going to be dry and air is going to be unstable.”
Authorities expanded evacuations that now affect some 2,000 residents of a largely rural area of lakes and wildlife refuges. The blaze, which was 22% contained, has burned at least 67 homes and 100 outbuildings while threatening thousands more.
At the other end of the state, a fire in the mountains of northeast Oregon grew to more than 17 square miles (44 square kilometers) by Sunday.
The Elbow Creek Fire that started Thursday has prompted evacuations in several small, remote communities around the Grande Ronde River about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Walla Walla, Washington. It was 10% contained.
Natural features of the area act like a funnel for wind, feeding the flames and making them unpredictable, officials said.
In California, a growing wildfire south of Lake Tahoe jumped a highway, prompting more evacuation orders, the closure of the Pacific Crest Trail and the cancellation of an extreme bike ride through the Sierra Nevada.
The Tamarack Fire, which was sparked by lightning on July 4, had charred nearly 29 square miles (74 square kilometers) of dry brush and timber as of Sunday morning. The blaze was threatening Markleeville, a small town close to the California-Nevada state line. It has destroyed at least two structures, authorities said.
A notice posted Saturday on the 103-mile (165-kilometer) Death Ride’s website said several communities in the area had been evacuated and ordered all bike riders to clear the area. The fire left thousands of bikers and spectators stranded in the small town and racing to get out.
Kelli Pennington and her family were camping near the town Friday so her husband could participate in his ninth ride when they were told to leave. They had been watching smoke develop over the course of the day, but were caught off guard by the fire’s quick spread.
“It happened so fast,” Pennington said. “We left our tents, hammock and some foods, but we got most of our things, shoved our two kids in the car and left.”
About 500 fire personnel were battling the flames Sunday, “focusing on preserving life and property with point protection of structures and putting in containment lines where possible,” the U.S. Forest Service said.
Meteorologists predicted critically dangerous fire weather with lightning possible through at least Monday in both California and southern Oregon.
“With the very dry fuels, any thunderstorm has the potential to ignite new fire starts,” the National Weather Service in Sacramento, California, said on Twitter.
Extremely dry conditions and heat waves tied to climate change have swept the region, making wildfires harder to fight. Climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
Firefighters said in July they were facing conditions more typical of late summer or fall.
Northern California’s Dixie Fire roared to new life Sunday, prompting new evacuation orders in rural communities near the Feather River Canyon. The wildfire, near the 2018 site of the deadliest U.S. blaze in recent memory, was 15% contained and covered 39 square miles. The fire is northeast of the town of Paradise, California, and survivors of that horrific fire that killed 85 peoplewatched warily as the new blaze burned.
Officials in Montana identified a firefighter who was seriously burned when flames overtook a crew fighting a small blaze there. Dan Steffensen was flown to a Salt Lake City hospital after the winds shifted suddenly on Friday, engulfing his fire engine near the Wyoming border. A second firefighter escaped without injury and called for help.
There were about 70 active large fires and complexes of multiple blazes that have burned nearly 1,659 square miles (4,297 square kilometers) in the U.S., the National Interagency Fire Center said. The U.S. Forest Service said at least 16 major fires were burning in the Pacific Northwest alone.
Size of Oregon wildfire underscores vastness of the US West
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The monstrous wildfire burning in Oregon has grown to a third the size of Rhode Island and spreads miles each day, but evacuations and property losses have been minimal compared with much smaller blazes in densely populated areas of California.
The fire’s jaw-dropping size contrasted with its relatively small impact on people underscores the vastness of the American West and offers a reminder that Oregon, which is larger than Britain, is still a largely rural state, despite being known mostly for its largest city, Portland.
The 476-square-mile (1,210-square-kilometer) Bootleg Fire is burning 300 miles (483 kilometers) southeast of Portland in and around the Fremont-Winema National Forest, a vast expanse of old-growth forest, lakes and wildlife refuges.
If the fire were in densely populated parts of California, “it would have destroyed thousands of homes by now,” said James Johnston, a researcher with Oregon State University’s College of Forestry who studies historical wildfires. “But it is burning in one of the more remote areas of the lower 48 states. It’s not the Bay Area out there.”
At least 2,000 homes have been evacuated at some point during the fire and another 5,000 threatened. At least 70 homes and more than 100 outbuildings have gone up in flames. Thick smoke chokes the area where residents and wildlife alike have already been dealing with months of drought and extreme heat. No one has died.
Pushed by strong winds from the southwest, the fire is spreading rapidly to the north and east, advancing toward an area that’s increasingly remote.
Evacuation orders on the fire’s southern edge, closer to more populous areas like Klamath Falls and Bly, have been lifted or relaxed as crews gain control. Now it’s small, unincorporated communities like Paisley and Long Creek — both with fewer than 250 people — and scattered homesteads that are in the crosshairs.
“The Bootleg Fire is threatening ranch houses that are in pretty far-flung areas,” Johnston said. “There are no suburbs in that area.”
But as big as the Bootleg Fire is, it’s not the biggest Oregon has seen. The fire’s current size puts it fourth on the list of the state’s largest blazes in modern times, including rangeland fires, and second on the list of infernos specifically burning in forest.
These megafires usually burn until the late fall or even early winter, when rain finally puts them out.
The largest forest fire in modern history was the Biscuit Fire, which torched nearly 780 square miles (2,000 square kilometers) in 2002 in the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest in southern Oregon and northern California. The largest fire of any type was the Long Draw Fire in 2012, which incinerated 872 square miles (2,260 square kilometers) of mostly sagebrush and rangeland in the endless expanses of southeastern Oregon, where almost no one lives.
By the time the Bootleg Fire is extinguished months from now, it will likely be as big or bigger than those fires, but research shows that Oregon once experienced megafires much larger than these fairly often, Johnston said.
“I think it’s important for us to take the long view of wildfire. In the context of the last couple hundreds years, the Bootleg Fire is not large,” he said. “One of the things my lab group does is reconstruct historical fires, and fires that were burning in that area in the 1600s and 1700s were just as big as the Bootleg Fire or bigger.”
That’s little reassurance for fire crews battling the current blaze, which is 25% contained.
On Monday, flames forced the evacuation of a wildlife research station as firefighters had to retreat from the flames for the ninth consecutive day due to erratic and dangerous fire behavior. Sycan Marsh hosts thousands of migrating and nesting birds and is a key research station on wetland restoration in the upper reaches of the Klamath Basin.
Fire pushed by winds and fueled by bone-dry conditions jumped fire-retardant containment lines and pushed up to 4 miles into new territory, authorities said.
Fire crews were also rushing to corral multiple “slop fires” — patches of flames that escaped fire lines meant to contain the blaze — before they grew in size. One of those smaller fires was already nearly 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) in size. Thunderstorms with dry lightning were possible Monday as well, heightening the dangers.
“We are running firefighting operations through the day and all through the night,” said Joe Hessel, incident commander. “This fire is a real challenge, and we are looking at sustained battle for the foreseeable future.”
The Bootleg Fire was one of many fires burning in a dozen states, most of them in the U.S. West. Sixteen large uncontained fires burned in Oregon and Washington state alone on Monday, affecting a total of 767 square miles (1,986 square kilometers), the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center said.
Extremely dry conditions and heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight. Climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
At the other end of Oregon, a fire in the northeast mountains grew to nearly 26 square miles (49 square kilometers).
The Elbow Creek Fire that started Thursday has prompted evacuations in several small, rural communities around the Grande Ronde River about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Walla Walla, Washington. It was 10% contained.
Natural features of the area act like a funnel for wind, feeding the flames and making them unpredictable, officials said.
A complex of fires where the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho meet also grew, reaching 167 square miles (433 square kilometers). The Snake River Complex was 44% contained. The complex was made up of three fires started by lightning on July 7. Flames were chewing through a mix of grass and timber in an extremely remote area of steep terrain about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Lewiston, Idaho.
And in Northern California, authorities expanded evacuations on the Tamarack Fire in Alpine County in the Sierra Nevada to include the mountain town of Mesa Vista. That fire, which exploded over the weekend and forced the cancellation of an extreme bike ride, was 36 square miles (93 square kilometers) with no containment.
Thunderstorms expected to roll through Monday night could bring winds to fan the flames and lightning that could spark new ones, the National Weather Service said.
Wildfires causing hazy skies
(WJW) — The Northeast Ohio area can expect hazy skies over the next few days due to wildfires in the Western U.S.
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The National Weather Service in Cleveland said in a Tweet the smoke will not affect air quality since it is so high up in the atmosphere.
Wondering why it’s so hazy today? The smoke will not affect air quality across our area since it’s so high up in the atmosphere. This will likely stick around for the next few days. https://t.co/LcWjIZjwdf
— NWS Cleveland (@NWSCLE) July 19, 2021
There are dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather looms in the coming days.
One fire in Oregon just north of the California border grew to more than 476 square miles, an area about the size of Los Angeles, over the weekend.
At the other end of the state, a fire in the mountains of northeast Oregon grew to more than 17 square miles (44 square kilometers) by Sunday.
The Elbow Creek Fire that started Thursday has prompted evacuations in several small, remote communities around the Grande Ronde River about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Walla Walla, Washington. It was 10% contained.
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In California, a growing wildfire south of Lake Tahoe jumped a highway, prompting more evacuation orders, the closure of the Pacific Crest Trail and the cancellation of an extreme bike ride through the Sierra Nevada.
The Tamarack Fire, which was sparked by lightning on July 4, had charred nearly 29 square miles (74 square kilometers) of dry brush and timber as of Sunday morning. The blaze was threatening Markleeville, a small town close to the California-Nevada state line. It has destroyed at least two structures, authorities said.
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Giolito tosses 3-hitter as White Sox pound Astros 10-1
CHICAGO (AP) — Lucas Giolito said he wanted to “come out with a vengeance” in his first start after the All-Star break.
The Houston Astros felt the wrath of the Chicago White Sox ace right hander.
Giolito pitched a three-hitter, José Abreu launched a three-run homer and the White Sox beat the Astros 10-1 on Saturday night.
Tim Anderson, Zack Collins and rookies Gavin Sheets and Jake Burger also went deep as the White Sox broke out against the Astros after dropping the first five games in the season series by a combined 34-9 score.
“I didn’t really like my first half,” Giolito said. “Today was really a good launching point for flipping the switch.
“I thought I was convicted behind each and every pitch tonight, even the ones that didn’t go my way.”
Most did.
Giolito (8-6) struck out eight and walked none while throwing 107 pitches in his fifth career complete game. After Michael Brantley doubled with one out in the first, Giolito retired 22 in a row before Abraham Toro homered with two outs in the eighth.
None of Houston’s first 16 outs against Giolito came on grounders. All were on fly balls, popups or strikeouts until Jose Altuve chopped the ball to third baseman Yoán Moncada for the final out of the Houston sixth.
“Lucas, he was nasty, man,” manager Tony La Russa said. “I think from the first pitch his stuff was electric.”
Anderson had three hits in the matchup of AL division leaders, and Burger’s seventh-inning solo shot was his first career homer.
And the White Sox wanted to make a statement after the Astros had manhandled them through their first five meetings.
“We definitely needed that one,” Anderson said. “For us to go out and put up 10, hopefully we started something up.”
Astros right-hander Jake Odorizzi (3-5) permitted four runs and six hits in 3 1/3 innings. He entered with a 1.04 ERA is his previous five outings, but was out of kilter in one.
“I just couldn’t find a consistent slot today,” Odorizzi said. “Not establishing fastball command was really the reason today. Just one of those days.”
Collins and Anderson went deep on consecutive pitches from Odorizzi with one out in the third. Both homers may have been boosted from a steady breeze that was blowing out, but Odorizzi made mistakes on both pitches.
“He really got hurt on the first couple of homers,” manager Dusty Baker said. “They were up over the plate and they didn’t miss them.
“I guess it was their night. We had beaten them five in a row.”
Sheets made it 6-0 with a two-run drive off Brandon Bielak in the fifth, and Abreu’s 16th homer was a three-run shot to left against Joe Smith in the sixth.
MOVING UP
Abreu’s homer was No. 214 for his career, moving him into a tie for fourth place with Carlton Fisk on the franchise list.
STAYING ON THE SOUTH SIDE
The White Sox and All-Star right-hander Lance Lynn agreed to a $38 million, two-year contract extension. The 34-year-old Lynn is 9-3 with an AL-best 1.99 ERA in 16 starts in his first season with Chicago.
“There’s no point in going into free agency if you know where you want to be,” Lynn said. “They’ve put together a winner here. That’s what I want to be part of and help to kind of push it over the top to get a championship.”
Lynn will make $18.5 million in each of the next two seasons. The White Sox have an $18 million option for 2024 with a $1 million buyout.
MOUNTAIN RECHARGE
Giolito said he and he wife took a trip to Lake Tahoe to get away from baseball during the All-Star break. Then the couple hung out with their pets and Giolito said he “came back here ready to go.”
Baker agreed.
“He was getting the ball and he was rushing us,” Baker said. “He had his tempo up and his timing together.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Astros: Baker hopes RHP Zack Greinke (shoulder soreness) will be able to start Monday against Cleveland. Greinke was removed after four innings in his last start, on July 10 against the Yankees. … INF Aledmys Díaz (fractured left hand) started a rehab stint in the rookie level Gulf Coast League on Saturday. … RHP Pedro Báez (shoulder soreness) is scheduled to pitch Sunday at Houston’s Low-A affiliate in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
White Sox: Manager Tony La Russa said RHP Evan Marshall (strained right elbow) has resumed throwing the ball, but not off the mound or in the bullpen. There’s no timetable for his return.
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Houston LHP Framber Valdez (5-1, 2.98 ERA) faces Chicago LHP Carlos Rodón (7-3, 2.31 ERA) on Sunday afternoon. Rodón was on the AL All-Star team, but didn’t pitch Tuesday in Denver.
Mon. 10:04 a.m.: Oregon wildfire burns area nearly the size of Los Angeles | News, Sports, Jobs
The Tamarack Fire burns Saturday in the Markleeville community of Alpine County, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
BLY, Ore. (AP) — Erratic winds and dry lightning added to the dangers for crews battling the nation’s largest wildfire this morning in parched Oregon forests, just one of dozens burning across several Western states.
The destructive Bootleg Fire, one of the largest in modern Oregon history, has already burned more than 476 square miles, an area about the size of Los Angeles. The blaze just north of the California state line was 25 percent contained.
Meteorologists predicted critically dangerous fire weather through at least today with lightning possible in both California and southern Oregon.
“With the very dry fuels, any thunderstorm has the potential to ignite new fire starts,” the National Weather Service in Sacramento, California, said on Twitter.
Thousands have been ordered to evacuate, including some 2,000 people who live in rugged terrain among lakes and wildlife refuges near the fire, which has burned at least 67 homes and 100 outbuildings while threatening many more.
Climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. Firefighters said these conditions in July are more typical of late summer or fall.
Pyrocumulus clouds — literally translated as “fire clouds” — complicated containment efforts Sunday for the Dixie Fire in northern California, where flames spread in remote areas with steep terrain crews can’t easily reach, officials said. New evacuation orders were issued in rural communities near the Feather River Canyon.
The Dixie Fire remained 15 percent contained and covered 29 square miles. The fire is northeast of the town of Paradise, California, and survivors of that horrific fire that killed 85 people watched warily as the blaze burned.
A growing wildfire south of Lake Tahoe jumped a highway, prompting more evacuation orders, the closure of the Pacific Crest Trail and the cancellation of an extreme bike ride through the Sierra Nevada.
The Tamarack Fire, which was sparked by lightning on July 4, had charred about 28.5 square miles of dry brush and timber as of Sunday night. The blaze was threatening Markleeville, a small town close to the California-Nevada state line. It has destroyed at least two structures, authorities said.
A notice posted Saturday on the 103-mile Death Ride’s website said several communities in the area had been evacuated and ordered all bike riders to clear the area. The fire left thousands of bikers and spectators stranded in the small town and racing to get out.
Kelli Pennington and her family were camping near the town Friday so her husband could participate in his ninth ride when they were told to leave. They had been watching smoke develop over the course of the day, but were caught off guard by the fire’s quick spread.
“It happened so fast,” Pennington said. “We left our tents, hammock and some foods, but we got most of our things, shoved our two kids in the car and left.”
About 800 fire personnel were assigned to battle the flames by Sunday night, “focusing on preserving life and property with point protection of structures and putting in containment lines where possible,” the U.S. Forest Service said.
A fire in the mountains of northeast Oregon grew to more than 18 square miles by Sunday. The Elbow Creek Fire that started Thursday has prompted evacuations in several small, remote communities around the Grande Ronde River about 30 miles southeast of Walla Walla, Washington. It was 10 percent contained.
Natural features of the area act like a funnel for wind, feeding the flames and making them unpredictable, officials said.
Overall, about 70 active large fires and complexes of multiple blazes have burned nearly 1,659 square miles (4,297 square kilometers) in the U.S., the National Interagency Fire Center said. The U.S. Forest Service said at least 16 major fires were burning in the Pacific Northwest alone.
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USA, California: Lake Tahoe – South Tahoe, Emerald Bay – Diary of a visionary
San Francisco – Tahoe – Yosemite – Half Moon Bay
In search of where to get out of San Francisco for a few days, I asked colleagues. There was an opinion that Yosemite is difficult and a lot of people, and the choice fell on Lake Tahoe, although later I still ended up in Yosemite. Therefore, breaking free from the office on Friday, I rushed there. The road there is difficult in the sense that you go through a constantly loaded highway, which periodically (Friday afternoon) gets in a multi-lane traffic jam.The San Francisco Bay area is highly populated.
Therefore, it was not possible to enter the intermediate city of Sacramento as planned. More precisely, I drove through the city center, but in the end I could not pay for parking (it took small cash, without which I did all the way), looked at several monumental buildings (and Sacramento is known for its architecture of the late 19th century), and went further east to side of the Tahoe. A total of 6 hours of travel, whatever the navigator thinks.
Tahoe is a photogenic lake in eastern California, bordering the state of Nevada, such a small American Baikal located at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea level.Around – mountains (up to 3000), and many hiking trails, one of which I decided on. In the meantime – the emerald bay, somewhere in the parking lot were found trash cans with protection from bears. Bears are the main danger there, for the garbage, of course. For a person there, bears are dangerous only when they get used to the person they are initially afraid of ..
Emerald bay on Tahoe
On the pass
In South Tahoe, the capital of the southern part of the lake
Morning at the supermarket.How do they manage to grow such identical pumpkins?
Apocalyptic IPA
My cheap motel with the lowest rating on the booking.
And we go to the lake
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Bear-proof trash cans
Outdoor hockey by Lake Tahoe
see the lake, says Derek King, senior NHL facility manager.“Awesome place.”
Walking through the grounds where the NHL Outdoors at Lake Tahoe will take place, two things catch your eye: the simple and timeless beauty of the landscape, which actually became the reason why the choice was made in favor of this resort. as well as modern infrastructure, which made it possible to implement such a bold idea.
This project is dedicated to hockey on frozen lakes and rivers, familiar to all of us from childhood.But the games that we will see on the weekend will not at all resemble children’s battles: on Saturday ( 23:00 Moscow time) in the match Bridgestone NHL Outdoors Saturday will meet “Vegas Golden Knights” and “Colorado Avalanche”, and on Sunday (23:00 Moscow time) in a duel Honda NHL Outdoors Sunday will face off the Philadelphia Flyers and the Boston Bruins.
The results of these bouts count towards the regular season. Due to the fact that the season had to be shortened from 82 to 56 matches due to the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of each game has increased.
“The idea was to keep the box in the wilderness,” says Dean Matsuzaki, NHL executive vice president of event management. “Unfortunately, we need some logistics to get things organized.”
Video: Chronicle of the construction of the ice rink for matches at Lake Tahoe
Nature on the California-Nevada border, where Edgewood Tahoe Resort is located, lives up to expectations.
Standing with your back to the rink and looking at Lake Tahoe, you won’t even think that there is a hockey rink. Before my eyes the smooth surface of the water, the Sierra Nevada mountains on the other side, in my ears the sound of waves on the shore. Yellow sand, blue water, snow-capped mountain peaks create an ever-changing picture. It all depends on the time of day, weather, clouds.
American naturalist John Muir, who is considered “the father of US national parks”, visited here about 150 years ago.
“Tahoe is not one, there are many mountain lakes,” he wrote in a letter on November 3, 1873.“I walk along its shores, go around its bays, look at the high sky, gently colored by the rays of the sun that dissolve in the air, and it seems to me that there is a real paradise here, where all the mountain lakes that I happened to see are gathered.”
The NHL needs logistics, it cannot be done without it.
The League cannot find the first lake it finds, install boards, glasses and play a couple of matches.
“Playing on the lake would be great,” King laughs. “We would have saved so much time.”
Ice must meet NHL standards, so the league is building a box on a golf course that is owned by Edgewood Tahoe Resort.
According to King, by Monday, the ice was already about two and a half centimeters thick. On Monday evening or early Tuesday morning they are going to paint it white. Training will take place here on Friday. By this time, the site will be completely ready. The ice will be about six centimeters thick and will have markings and logos.
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“We’ll do our best to keep the ice perfect,” King said.
And everything else must comply with NHL standards. We must remember that these games will not take place in a baseball or football stadium, like other open-air league matches, but on a golf course, where everything has to be built from scratch.
A TV tower is being erected next to the NHL hockey rink to provide the most advantageous plan, covering both the game and the landscape.A small tent will be erected in front of this tower, which will become a television equipment
On the sides of the tower there will be two tents for general managers, referees, statisticians and match services. They must correspond to the general surroundings. NHL Event Manager Steve Meyer calls them “chalets.”
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Two more large tents are set up behind them.These are team changing rooms with outerwear rooms, medical offices, technical rooms and toilets. There are only no showers, hockey players will have to wash in the hotel.
“I don’t think it will surprise them,” Matsuzaki said. “I recommend that they come here in warm clothes. You should not get off the bus in your underwear, as if you are in the stadium. You need to put something on top.”
There is a tent with an X-ray. And a whole fleet of trailers that are parked on a plastic cover of hundreds of square meters to protect the grass on the golf course.These trailers contain offices as well as a mobile refrigeration unit and generators.
“I think the players will be thrilled when they first see this scene after getting off the bus,” Matsuzaki says. “First they get to the locker rooms. They can’t see the box from there. They’ll be curious. We often see athletes entering the arena. even before they change. And there they will see a skating rink, mountains, a lake. They will love it. ”
List of events broadcast on Wide World of Sports (American TV program)
Wikipedia listing article
“ A wide world of sports” ABC was conceived as a substitute show for one summer season prior to the start of the autumn sports seasons, but suddenly became popular.The goal of the program was to showcase sports from around the world that were rarely, if ever, broadcast on American television. It originally worked for two hours on Saturday afternoons, but was later reduced to 90 minutes.
Usually “Wide World” presented two or three events per show. These include many sports not previously shown on American television, such as throwing, rodeos, curling, jai alai, firefighter competitions, wrist wrestling, powerlifting, surfing, lumberjack sports, demolition derbies, slow feed softball, barrel jumping and badminton…. NASCAR Grand National / Winston Cup races were a staple of sport in wide world until the late 1980s when they became a regular sporting event on the net. Traditional Olympic sports such as figure skating, skiing, gymnastics, and track and field competitions were also regular elements of the show. Another memorable regular feature of the 1960s and 1970s was Mexican cliff diving. The only national television broadcast of the Continental Football League was the telecast of the 1966 championship game in to the wide world of sports ; ABC paid the league $ 500 for a license fee, a paltry amount by professional football standards.
Wide World of Sports was the first American television program to broadcast – among events – Wimbledon (1961), Indianapolis 500 (highlights begin 1961; extended version 1965), NCAA Championship men’s basketball (1962), Daytona +500 (1962), at the US Figure Skating Championships (1962), the Monaco Grand Prix (1962), the World Series Little League (1961), the British Open Golf Tournament ( 1961), X-Games (1994) and Gray Cup (1962).
1960s
1961
1962
| Day | Event |
| January 7 | AFL All-Star Game |
| January 14 | World Barrel Jumping Championship |
| January 21 | Acapulco Water Ski Championship |
| January 28 | Oregon Athletics Invitation |
| February 4 | National Ski Jumping Championship |
| February 11 | Los Angeles Invitational From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Jim Beatty sets the indoor mile record at 3: 58.9, becoming the first person in history to run an indoor mile under 4:00. |
| February 18 | Luge Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and men’s surf finals. |
| February 25 | First coverage of NASCAR 500 Production Car Championship from Daytona Beach, Florida |
| March 4 and 11 | World Ski Games Chamonix, France |
| March 25 | NCAA Basketball Championship: Cincinnati – Ohio from Louisville. |
| April 1 | World Figure Skating Championships for the first time from Prague, Czechoslovakia. |
| April 14 | Grand National Steeplechase from Eintree. |
| June 10 | Monaco Grand Prix. |
| July 1 | Water Ski Veterans Tournament |
| July 15 | British Open from Troon, Scotland. |
| September 15 and 22 | America’s Cup from Newport, Rhode Island |
1963
1964
| Day | Event |
| January 4 | Jumping World Championships Barrel from Grossinger, New York and Orange Bowl Regatta from Miami, Florida |
| 11 January | International Ski Jumping Championship in Innsbruck, Austria, and International Surfing Championship at Makaha Beach, Hawaii. |
| January 18 | Peggy Fleming wins her first of five consecutive national titles at age 15 at the US Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| January 25 | World Cycling Championships from Basel, Switzerland. |
| February 1 | Tarpon Fishing Championship from Big Pine Key, Florida and National Ice Rowing from Green Lake, Wisconsin |
| February 8 | Fort Worth Rodeo Finals |
| February 15 | New York Athletic Club indoor track meets |
| April 11 | Challenger Cassius Clay, who will soon take on the Muslim name of Muhammad Ali, knocks out champion Sonny Liston in round seven in Miami Beach, Florida. |
| May 16 | A group of climbers, three Frenchmen and one Englishman, climb the northwest tower of the Eiffel Tower. |
| May 30 | Olympic boxing games in the United States. |
| June 27 | Interview with Jim Banning after his perfect game against the New York Mets. |
| July 11 | British Open from St Andrews. |
| July 25 | Vera Chaslavskaya wins the all-around in the USA-Czechoslovakia doubles match. |
| August 15 | US National Swimming Championships in Los Altos, California |
| August 22 | Broadcast of the All-American Soap Box Derby from Akron, Ohio. |
| August 29 | Small world league. |
| September 6 | 1964 Italian Grand Prix, John Surtez won the Italian Grand Prix over Bruce McLaren. |
| September 26 | Oklahoma Live rattlesnake hunting. |
| 21st November | National 100 in Sacramento. |
1965
| Day | Event | Commentators | Reporters |
| March 13 | International Toboggan Championship, better known as Cresta Run, from St. Moritz, Switzerland. | ||
| March 20 | Jean-Claude Killy made his first appearance at American Internationals on WWOS . | ||
| April 10 | In addition to the US National Swimming and Diving Championships, the show featured Robert F. Kennedy climbing a mountain. Kennedy in Canada to plant the family flag on top of a mountain named after his brother and a segment of the Houston Astrodom with Roger Maris trying to hit the roof of the stadium. | ||
| April 17 | NCAA Wrestling Championship. | ||
| May 29 | A rematch between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston of Lewiston, Maine. | ||
| May 30 | Monaco Grand Prix. | Jim McKay Phil Hill | |
| June 5 | First coverage of Indianapolis 500 in Wide World of Sports after time trial coverage of the previous four years. | Charlie Brockman Roger Ward | |
| June 19 | Live satellite of the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans race | Jim McKay Phil Hill | Chris Economaki |
| July 24 | Lighting for the ascent of the Matterhorn from Zermatt, Switzerland. | ||
| August 1 | USA-USSR Athletics Meeting, live from the Soviet Union. | ||
| August 7 | 1965 German Grand Prix Jim Clark showed everyone by winning the race and the drivers’ championship. | ||
| 11 September | Southern 500 stock car race. | Jim McKay Roger Ward |
1966
| Day | Event |
| January 1 | Ice races from St. Moritz become the first segment “ Wide World of Sports” in color. |
| February 26 | European Basketball Champions Cup from Milan, Italy. |
| April 2 | Muhammad Ali defeats George Chuvalo in a 15-round decision to retain the world heavyweight title in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1966 12 hours of Sebring |
| April 9 | AAU Indoor Swimming and Diving Championships. |
| May 7 | Willie Mays makes a 512th home run, breaking an all-time National League record. |
| May 21 | Muhammad Ali retained his world heavyweight title with Henry Cooper in a sixth round TKO in London. |
| July 30 | Jim Ryun sets his first world mile record at Berkeley at the age of 19, breaking the previous record by 2.3 seconds. |
| 10th September | Muhammad Ali defeats Karl Mildenberger in heavyweight title defense live from Frankfurt, West Germany via 12th round TKO. |
| October 8 | International Figure Skating Revue in Berlin. |
| November 26 | Muhammad Ali defends his world heavyweight title for the sixth time in 1966 at Wide World of Sports against Cleveland Williams. |
| December 24 | Alpine Ski World Championships from Portillo, Chile. |
| December 31 | American Grand Prix. |
1967
| Day | Events | Comment | Reporters |
| January 28 | Auto Thrill Show Joey Chitwood from New York | ||
| February 11 | Muhammad Ali defends his heavyweight title against Ernie Terrell in Houston, Texas. | ||
| March 4 | World Figure Skating Championships in Vienna, Austria. | ||
| March 11 | Interview with Muhammad Ali and Wilt Chamberlain. | ||
| March 25 | Evel Knievel makes his debut in Wide World of Sports , clearing 15 cars during motorcycle races in Gardena, California. | ||
| April 8 | AAU Indoor Championships in Dallas. | ||
| April 22 | London – Brighton Vintage Car Race. | ||
| May 10 | Monaco Grand Prix Denny Hume won the tragic race in which Lorenzo Bandini died.This was the first broadcast in color of the race in Monaco. | Jim McKay Phil Hill | |
| May 20 | Mickey Mantle hits his 500th home run. | ||
| May 27 | English Rugby League Cup Final. | ||
| June 3 | British sailor Sir Francis Chichester completes his 28,500-mile round the world. | ||
| June 10 | A.J. Foyt wins the Indianapolis 500. | Jim McKay Roger Ward | Chris Economaki |
| June 24 | AAU National Athletics Championships in Bakersfield, California. Jim Ryun set a world mile record of 3: 51.1, which lasted eight years. The brand remained the American record until 1981’s Dream Mile, also on Wide World of Sports. | ||
| July 1 | A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney win the 24 Hours of Le Mans Endurance Grand Prix. | Jim McKay Phil Hill | Chris Economaki |
| July 29 and August 5 | Pan American Games from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
1968
1969
1970s
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
| Day | Event |
| January 6 | At the Harlem Globetrotters in London. |
| January 26 | Muhammad Ali and Joe Fraser fought during a telecast while watching a recording of their first fight in 1971. |
| February 9 | USA Figure Skating Championships |
| February 17 | Evel Knievel hops 11 Mack trucks in Highland Falls, Texas. The show, which also included the national rodeo finals. |
| March 2 | Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Fraser in his second fight in New York. |
| March 16 | Roberto Duran knocks out Esteban De Jesus in round 11 to retain his lightweight title from Panama City, Panama. |
| March 17 | World Figure Skating Championships from Munich. |
| March 31 | George Foreman scores a second-round TKO against Ken Norton for the World Heavyweight Championship. |
| April 7 | Oxford-Cambridge Regatta. |
| May 26 | 1974 Monaco Grand Prix |
| August 31 | Evel Knievel’s daring motorcycle jump in Toronto and Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk from New York. |
| September 14 | Evel Knievel tries to jump over the Snake River Canyon in Twin Falls, Idaho in a car called a skycycle in front of 33,000 fans. The parachute opened prematurely and Evel crashed into the canyon wall and had to be pulled out of the water. |
| September 21 | Wide World of Sports returns to Havana, Cuba for the World Boxing Championship, which was attended by Teofilo Stevenson. |
| October 6 | 1974 United States Grand Prix: Emerson Fittipaldi won the F1 Championship and was interviewed by Jackie Stewart, but it was a tragic race when Helmut Koinigg died. |
1975
| Day | Event |
| January 5 | Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round to reclaim the world heavyweight title from Kinshasa, Zaire. |
| January 19 | Philippe Petit walks the tightrope between the two towers of the cathedral in Laon, France. |
| March 29 | Muhammad Ali scores a 15th round TKO against Chuck Wepner in their World Heavyweight Championship Bout. |
| May 25 | 1975 Monaco Grand Prix. |
| May 31 | Evel Knievel’s attempt to jump 140 feet over 13 double-decker buses at Wembley Stadium in London ended in failure when he dropped his bike on a boarding ramp and the bike landed on him. |
| June 28 and August 9 | Nadja Comaneci wins the all-around finals and three of the four individual finals at the European Women’s Gymnastics Championships in Skien, Norway. |
| July 26 | Coverage of the North American Continental Boxing Championship. |
| First sporting Tour de France lighting in wide world . | |
| August 16 | Covering John Walker’s world record at 3: 49.4 mile in Gothenburg, Sweden, made him the first to break the 3:50 hurdle. |
| 13 September | World Heavyweight Championship fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Bugner of Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. |
| October 4 | National Drag Racing Championship |
| October 25 | Evel Knievel jumps for the first time since the Wembley Stadium crash and passes 14 Greyhound buses. The show, which takes place from Kings Island in Kings Mills, Ohio, is considered the highest-rated show in history Wide World of Sports . |
1976
1977
| Day | Event |
| January 2 | Interview with Muhammad Ali. |
| January 22 | Profile of 16-year-old apprentice jockey Steve Cowten. |
| January 23 | Meeting of gymnasts from the USA and the People’s Republic of China from Beijing. |
| February 5 | United States Figure Skating Championships in Hartford, Connecticut. |
| February 12 | Special gymnastics competition from South Bend, Indiana. Features Olga Korbut and Nelly Kim and the USSR gymnastics team. This marked the final performance of Olga at the competition “ Wide World of Sports” . |
| February 19 | Lighting for the Mr. Universe competition. |
| March 5 | World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo, Japan. |
| May 7 | Seattle Slew, who later became the first Triple Crown in 29 years, won the Flamingo Stakes (March 26) and Wood Memorial (April 23) en route to the Kentucky Derby title. |
| May 14 | Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Willie Rodriguez in the second fight of his professional career. |
| May 22 | 1977 Monaco Grand Prix |
| July 2 | USA-USSR Athletics Meeting from Sochi, USSR. |
| July 23 | Arthur Ash Report on Apartheid and Sports in South Africa. |
| September 3 | USA-East Germany swimming and diving meet. |
| October 1 | Pele’s farewell match between the club where he started his career, Santos, and the club where he ended his career, New York Cosmos. |
| October 29 | Climber George Willig climbs the summit of Eldorado Canyon in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. |
1978
1979
1980s
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
| Day | Event |
| January 5 | Live broadcast of Mark Breland’s second professional fight against Marlon Palmer in Atlantic City, New Jersey. |
| January 12 | Hahnenkamm Downhill in Kitzbühel. |
| January 20 | Second professional bouts of Pernell Whitaker (vs. Danny Avery), Evander Holyfield (vs. Eric Winbush) and Meldrick Taylor (vs. Dwight Pratchett) live from Atlantic City. |
| February 3 | Brian Boitano wins the first of four consecutive national titles at the US Figure Skating Championships in Kansas City. In the same show, Pirmin Zurbriggen wins downhill skiing at the Alpine Ski World Championships in Bormio, Italy. |
| February 10 | Alpine Ski World Championships in Bormio, Italy. |
| February 16 | At the Harlem Globetrotters in New Orleans. |
| April 6 | Matt Biondi sets his first personal records in 100 and 200 yards freestyle at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas. |
| April 20 | Second professional fight of Olympic champion Tyrell Biggs. |
| May 18 | UCLA Athletics Invitation. |
| May 19 | 1985 Monaco Grand Prix. |
| June 8 | Barry McGuigan defeats Eusebio Pedroza to win the WBA welterweight title in London. |
| July 27 | Wide Sports World coverage, via satellite, in the Dream Mile from Oslo, Norway. |
| August 24 | A microminiature camera wearing a domestic judge mask was unveiled during a live broadcast of Wide World of Sports Minor League World Series from Williamsport, PA. |
| September 28 | Barry McGuigan defends his WBA welterweight title against Bernard Taylor in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
1986
1987
| Day | Event |
| January 10 | The last live broadcast of the Harlem Globetrotters from Kansas City. |
| January 17 | Ironman Triathlon. |
| January 31 | Alpine Skiing World Championship. |
| February 1 and 7 | Report of America’s Cup yacht races from Fremantle, Australia. |
| February 7 | U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Tacoma, Washington |
| February 28 | Women’s World Cup Final from Beijing. |
| March 1 | Race across America. |
| March 21 | Iowa State completes Iowa’s nine-year race as Tag Team Champion in the NCAA Wrestling Championships, while John Smith wins his first NCAA title. |
| March 22 | Mountain Man Winter Triathlon from Avon and Beaver Creak, Colorado. |
| March 29 | First broadcast on Wide World of Sports of the Iditarod Trail dog sled race. |
| April 11 | Pablo Morales ends his undergraduate swimming career with an NCAA record of 11 individual titles, while Matt Biondi ends his career by setting America and NCAA records in freestyle for 50, 100 and 200 yards at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas. |
| May 16 | Endurance Race in the Western States from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California |
| May 31 | Monaco Grand Prix 1987. |
| June 27 | U.S. Outdoor Athletics Championships in San Jose, California |
| August 1 | Greg Luganis wins the US 3m Diving Championships in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Janet Evans makes her debut in WWOS , winning four events at the US Championships in Clovis, California. |
| August 15 | International Special Olympics from Notre Dame, Indiana |
1988
1989
1990s
1990
1991
| Day | Event |
| January 19 | The Men’s Downhill World Championships from Wengen are canceled after Gernot Reinstadler of Austria fell during a qualifying run and later died from internal injuries.Meanwhile, the US ski team is withdrawing from the World Championships due to the Gulf War. |
| January 26 | World Champion Svetlana Boginskaya is upset by teammate Tatyana Lysenko in the all-around at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Meanwhile, the 1984 Olympics gold medalists Torvill and Dean are competing in the World Challenge of Champions. |
| February 2 | Harlem Globetrotters from Disney MGM Studios in Orlando.Moderated by Jim Valvano and special guest is Miss Piggy. Also, a repetition of Whitney Houston’s performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XXV. And an interview with quarterback Todd Marinovich after he was banned from the USC football team due to drugs and declared himself eligible for the NFL draft. |
| February 16 | United States Figure Skating Championships in Minneapolis. Plus a story about Nancy Kerrigan and her legally blind mother Brenda. |
| March 2 | Riddick Bowe vs. Tyrell Biggs. |
| March 16 | Rick Swenson wins his record fifth Iditarod Trail dog sled race. |
| April 13 | Tonya Harding performs a triple axel in her exhibition performance at the US Figure Skating Championships. Additionally, Mark Spitz kicks off his public return to competitive swimming with a spot on the 1992 Olympic team as his goal. |
| April 27 | Mark Spitz meets Matt Biondi in another 50m butterfly.Biondi wins, but Spitz finishes closer to Biondi than Tom Jager the week before. |
| April 29 | Wide World of Sports ” 30th Anniversary Exhibition hosted by Jim McKay and Frank Gifford. |
| May 4 | Kentucky Derby. |
| June 1 | Mike Tyson scores a TKO at Razor Ruddock in a tough fight, glued on March 18th. |
| June 8 | Belmont Stakes. |
| July 13 | As the International Olympic Committee lifts the ban prohibiting South Africa from participating in the Olympic Games, WWOS features American javelin thrower Tom Petranoff, who was banned by US officials from competing worldwide for competing in South Africa in violation of an international sports boycott. Petranoff talks about his move to South Africa and his desire to compete for his new country in the Olympics. |
| August 10 | ABC strikes a deal with the US Treasury Department and obtains exclusive broadcast rights to the Cuban-hosted Pan American Games. The telecast includes over 20 hours of all-round lighting and a rare glimpse into Cuba. The trip will culminate in the exclusive interview with ABC WWOS that Jim McKay conducted with Fidel Castro. |
1992
1993
| Day | Event |
| January 6 | As South Central Los Angeles is in the midst of rioting, WWOS is organizing a roundtable with gang members at Crenshaw High School. |
| January 16 | WWOS presents a new series about athletes living on the edge and expanding the horizons of sports, with the characteristics of extreme skiing. |
| January 23 | United States Figure Skating Championships. |
| January 30 | Nancy Kerrigan skates the show “Our Father”. |
| February 13 | World Ski Championships and tribute to Arthur Ashe, who died of complications from AIDS. |
| March 6 | Riddick Bowe knocks out Evander Holyfield in the 11th round of their bout from Las Vegas. In addition, A Wide World of Sports for Kids is making its debut with The Great Alaska Sled Dog Race, featuring the Iditarod dog sled race that runs from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. |
| March 20 | 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie defeats 1988 Olympic champion Brian Boitano for the first time in his professional career in the DuraSoft Colors World Challenge Champions. |
| April 3 | Santa Anita Derby. |
| April 10 | WWOS broadcasts the first-ever World Winter Games (Special Olympics) from Austria . |
| April 24 | Gymnastics. World Championship. |
| May 1 | Kentucky Derby. |
| May 15 | Preakness bets. |
| May 22 | A retrospective show featuring 10 key elements WWOS (from 1961 onwards)Until now). Viewers voted through USA Today for their favorite shows including AJ Foyt and Indy 500 ’67, Muhammad Ali, and Harlem Globetrotters performances. |
| June 5 | Belmont Stakes. |
| August 21 | World Championships in Athletics. |
| August 21 | Travers Stakes. |
| August 28 | In the Little League World Series, Sansone, at age 12, becomes the youngest network sportscaster when it covers LLWS for WWOS . |
1994
| Day | Event |
| 6, 8, 15, 29 January and 5 February | WWOS kicks off its 34th season with a new host, Julie Moran, with the US Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. The entire event is overshadowed by an attack on the reigning national champion Nancy Kerrigan at a training rink. WWOS correspondents report this story in exclusive interviews with Kerrigan, and they investigate Tony Harding’s offensive role when it comes into question. |
| January 22 | WWOS is a joint venture with Sports Illustrated TV’s From the Pages of Sports Illustrated, which follows Archie Manning’s son Peyton. |
| January 29 | WWOS introduces a series of features leading up to the 1994 FIFA World Cup, with Jim McKay as host. |
| WWOS debuts their WWOS for the kids show, with a re-telecast of The Great Alaskan Dog Sled Race.»12 February” Children on Ice – Ice Skating Adventure! ” examines the path of one young skater to the US Junior Championships. On June 11, on the Day at the Races program, presenter Maria Sansone offers a behind-the-scenes look at the races. | |
| April 2 | Two events return to WWOS after long hiatuses: Planica, Slovenia, Ski Flying World Championships, and Silver Springs, Florida, High Diving World Championships. |
| April 9, May 21, June 11 and August 20 | WWOS tracks the recovery and grueling rehab of Jeff Lucas, who was seriously injured by Tabasco Cat, a thoroughbred racehorse. |
| April 23 | Gymnastics. World Championship. |
| May 7 | WWOS debuts Cable Cam at the 120th Derby in Kentucky. This innovative camera is suspended from a wire in the infield of the track and can monitor the progress of horses in the rear section at speeds of up to 35 mph. |
| May 14 | Report on pair skating by Paul Martini and Barbara Underhill. One of the Underhill twins recently drowned in the family pool.They dedicate their performance at the Durasoft Colors World Challenge of Champions to her child. |
| July August | ABC allocates over 17 hours of full base weekend of the third Goodwill Games from St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| August 13 | On the second day of Major League Baseball’s strike, Al Michaels moderates a panel discussion from Los Angeles, with Los Angeles Dodgers Player Representative Brett Butler, Sports Illustrated Editor at Enhanced Steve Wolfe in New York and Peter Angelos, principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles in Maryland. |
| August 20 | Al Michaels talks to Bud Selig, acting commissioner for Major League Baseball on Day 9 of the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. In the meantime, Holy Bull wins Travers Stakes bets. |
| August 27 | A three-hour delay due to rain forces WWOS to stop broadcasting on many ABC affiliates before the World Championship World Series Little League game can be completed.West Coast sees a remnant of live action from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. |
1995
| Day | Event |
| January 21 | Al Unser- Jr. is named Athlete of the Year by WWOS after dominating the Indy circuit with eight victories, including the second Indy 500. |
| January 28 | Julie Moran hosts WWOS from Movie The NFL Experience at Joe Robbie Stadium, the venue for Super Bowl XXIX.In addition, Bob Beatty announces the cancellation of the Alpine Ski World Championships due to lack of snow for the first time since it began in 1931. WWOS planned extensive coverage starting February 4th. |
| February 11 | Richard Callaghan becomes the first coach since 1950 to coach national champions for men and women when Todd Eldridge and Nicole Bobek win the US Figure Skating Championships. The women’s event is broadcast prime time on ABC. |
| 18 February | Rene Roca and Gorsha Sur defeat Elizabeth Punsalan and Jarod Swallow for the US Ice Dancing Championship. Punsalan and Swallow also admit in an exclusive interview with ABC that in 1994 they lobbied Congress not to grant Sura, a native Russian, American citizenship so that they could represent the United States in the 94th Olympics. |
| Winning Picabo Street is her third of five consecutive descents in a row for the United States.By the end of the season, she will be the first American woman to win the Downhill World Championship. | |
| February 25 | Bonnie Blair wins her third world speed skating championship in her last competition on US ice. In addition, four Olympic gold medalist Johann Olaf Koss makes his TV commented debut on ABC and interviews fellow Lillehammer gold medalist Dan Jansen. |
| March 4 | Freestyle World Championship. |
| March 11 | Florida Derby. |
| March 18 | As Nadia Comaneci returns to Romania for the first time since her escape in 1989, WWOS details about her illustrious career. |
| May 6 | Kentucky Derby. |
| May 28 | Indianapolis 500. |
| June 10 | At Belmont Stakes, D.Wayne Lucas will become the first coach in history to lead two different horses in all three Triple Crown titles in one season. |
| June 24 | Mountain biking world champions. |
| July | Tour de France. |
| July 8 | During an appearance at the Special Olympics World Games, Monica Seles announces that she will return to professional tennis in a comeback after she was stabbed to death in 1993. |
| July 22 | Mike Tyson’s retrospective: a month before his return to the ring. |
| August 5, 6, 12 and 13 | World Championships in Athletics. |
1996
| Day | Event |
| January 20 | United States Figure Skating Championships. |
| February 27 | European Figure Skating Championships. |
| February 17 | Russian skier Tatyana Lebedeva, 22, collides with Harold Schonauer, former US ski coach and FIS official, during a women’s downhill training session at the Alpine Ski World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain. Lebedeva catches the air on a bump, and when she returns to the ground, Schonauer accidentally flew onto the track and got right in her path. Both had broken legs and were lifted off the mountain. |
| February 24 and March 2 | Alberto Tomba, a three-time Olympic champion from Italy, ended a decade of disappointment at the Alpine Ski World Championship by winning two gold medals. |
| March 2 | Christine Whitty becomes the women’s champion at the 27th World Speed Skating Championships. Meanwhile, three-time and reigning sprint world champion Bonnie Blair is making her debut commentator online. |
| March 21 and 23 | World Figure Skating Championships live from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Three-time US Champion Todd Eldridge wins his first World Championship and new US Champion Rudy Galindo wins bronze. On the afternoon of March 23, WWOS showed a record of the women’s short program and former world champion Midori Ito’s unsuccessful return to the amateur ranks. That evening, WWOS broadcast the first Michelle Kwan World Championship on live. |
| May 4 | Kentucky Derby. |
| May 18 | Preakness bets. |
| May 26 | Indianapolis 500. |
| June 8 | Belmont Stakes. |
| June 15 | WWOS Road Race Analyst Marty Likuri jumps out of the Advil mini-marathon’s lead car to stop the viewer from running alongside potential winner Tegla Lorup. The Likuri midfielder’s move takes place less than a minute from the finish line in Central Park. In addition, former Soviet star Svetlana Boginskaya, who now stands for Belarus, returns to the international arena, finishing second in the all-around at the European Women’s Gymnastics Championships. |
| June 29, July 6 and 13 | Tour de France. |
| September 23 | The first US women’s gymnastics team to win an Olympic gold medal, including WWOS stars Shannon Miller, Dominic Mochanu and Dominic Dawes, became the star of the Olympic Gymnastics Champions Tour. The show airs in prime time and goes to “ Football on Monday night ” . |
1997
1998
| Day | Event |
| January 8 | Todd Eldridge wins his fifth US Figure Skating Championships in Philadelphia and live to the national audience, finishing second in championship history after seven Dick Button titles. |
| January 10 | With less than a month left before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, a rivalry between Michelle Kwan (1996 US and World Figure Skating Champion) and Tara Lipinski (1997 US and World Figure Skating Champion) has erupted on the Philadelphia ice.Both will be on the team, but the winner of the US Figure Skating Championship will be the undisputed favorite for gold in Nagano. |
| January 17 | At the Winter X Games of Butte, Colorado. Mountain bike race snowboard and snow signs. In addition, for the first time in 30 years, snowmobiles have returned to Broad World of Sports and network television. Meanwhile, the Summer X Games from San Diego, California returned with skateboarding, skysurfing, street tobogganing, bike stunts, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and barefoot on shows on June 20, 27, and July 4, 1998. |
| March 15 | In Major League Soccer’s televised debut, Tony Sanne and DC United welcomed Miami Fusion to Major League Soccer with a 2-0 win over the expansion team ahead of a 20,450 spectator sale at Lockhart Stadium. Sunneh scored one goal for United and assisted another as the two-time reigning champions won the first leg of the third season of the MLS. |
| March 28 | On the same day, ABC covered CART’s first-ever foray into Japan in the Budweiser 500, Mexican Adrian Fernandez held off Al Unser Jr. to win the second race of his CART career. |
| April 2 | While competing in his last world championship in front of a lively national audience, Todd Eldridge won the free skate and silver medal, the fifth world medal of his career at the Target Center in Minneapolis. |
| April 4 | Michelle Kwan won her second world championship in three years despite falling on a double axel and unable to make three revolutions on a Salchow. |
| April 26 | Bobby Labonte edged out big brother Terry Labonte with two laps remaining in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series DieHard 500 and then blocked all challengers to claim his first win at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama. |
| May 2 | 124th Kentucky Derby Run. |
| May 16 | The Preakness Stakes. |
| May 17 | In its new role, update Wide World of Sports announces David Wells’ perfect New York Yankees play. Wells played the 15th flawless game in baseball history against the Minnesota Twins on Children’s Day at Yankee Stadium. |
| May 24 | Eddie Cheever Jr defeats Buddy Leiser 3.191 seconds to win 82nd in the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. |
| June 6 | The horses covered the mile and a half on the 130 Belmont Stakes in 2 minutes 29 seconds, but it took almost six minutes to determine the winner. On the Real Quiet segment, we took off and overtook Victory Gallop. Eventually, after a delay, Victory Gallop was declared the winner. |
| June 13 | The ABC World Cup kicked off with a goalless draw between the Netherlands and Belgium. |
| June 21 | Iran is eliminated by the United States from the World Cup 2-1.Before the game, material was presented on US-Iranian relations and a video on the same day in which crowds of people gather to watch a football match in Iran. |
| June 28 | Wide World of Sport highlights the seventh Whitbread Round The World for the Volvo Trophy. |
| July 12 | Host country France won its first World Cup by beating Brazil 3-0 at Stade de France in Saint-Denis. |
| July 19 | The 127th Open Championship from Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England was won by Masters champion Mark O’Meara in front of a live national television audience. |
| August 1 | Jeff Gordon became the first rider to win the Brickyard 400 twice, and he also received the largest lump sum for a first place in NASCAR history, a whopping $ 1,637,625. |
| August 2 | Marco Pantani became the first Italian to win the Tour de France since 1965, the first climber since Lucien Van Impe in 1976.Patani is also one of the few riders to win double Tour and Giro d’Italia in the same year. Additionally, the MLS All-Star Game debuted on network television when the MLS USA All-Stars beat MLS World 6-1 at the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Columbus Crew forward Brian McBride earned the MVP title with one goal and two assists. first half. |
| 23 August | Arena Football League made its network television debut with Arena Bowl XII.In Orlando the Predators crushed Tampa Bay Storm 62-31 at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, Florida Orlando played in three previous Arena of the Bowls, losing each one. |
| August 29 | Toms River, NJ beats Kashima, Japan 12-9 in the 52nd Minor League World Series Championship. |
Notes
On January 3, 1998, longtime host of Wide World of Sports Jim McKay announced that Wide World of Sports had been canceled; The one and a half hour practicing all kinds of sports was replaced by a leading studio that provided broadcasts of selected events such as the Indianapolis 500, Triple Crown Horse Racing, and National and World Figure Skating Championships.
1999
| Day | Event |
| January 23 | David Duvall dropped six feet on hole 90 for Eagle and hole 59 on the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. It was only the third of 59 ever recorded in the history of the PGA Tour – and the first on the last day of competition. |
| February 13 | Michelle Kwan won her third national title over Naomi Nari Nam at the US State Farm Figure Skating Championships.In men’s competition, Michael Weiss became the first father since Roger Turner in 1934 to win the US title. He defeated Trifun Zivanovic and Timothy Gebel. Daniel and Steve Hartsell beat Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman in pairs, while Naomi Lange and Peter Chernyshev beat Eva Chalom and Matthew Gates in the dance. |
| March 20 | Mike Wallace wins the first NASCAR ABC truck race, the Florida Dodge Dealer 400, in his Ford Truck. |
| March 25 | Russia becomes the first country to win gold in the World Figure Skating Championships since Austria did it in 1925.In the women’s championship, Russia won two of the three medals, with Maria Butyrskaya taking first place, ahead of the reigning world champion Michelle Kwan. At 26, Butyrskaya was the oldest woman to ever win a world championship. Yulia Soldatova finished third. In the men’s championship, Alexei Yagudin won gold against the Russian Yevgeny Plushenko. In pairs, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won the world title over the Chinese pair Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao for the second time in a row. In the dance, Angelica Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov won the second consecutive world gold medal over Marina Anisina and Gwendal Peizerat from France. |
| May 1 | 125th Kentucky Derby. |
| May 15 | Preakness bets. |
| May 30 | 83rd Indianapolis 500. |
| June 5 | Belmont Stakes. |
| July 3 | At the X Games V, Tony Hawk performed the first ‘900’ in skateboarding history. |
| July 10 | Brandi Chastain converted penalties past China’s Gao Hong and took off her uniform jersey as the United States won the Women’s World Cup final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. |
| July 17 | Paul Laurie of Scotland won the 128th British Open in Carnoustie, Scotland in a four-hole playoff over Justin Leonard and Jean van de Velde. |
| July 25 | Lance Armstrong captures the biggest cycling race ever, the 83rd Tour de France. |
| August 7 | On his way to his first NASCAR Winston Cup, Dale Jarrett won his second Brickyard 400. |
| August 28 | In a Minor League World Series championship match, Osaka, Japan, won 5-0 over Phoenix City, Alabama. |
| December 26 | The annual countdown of North America’s 50 Greatest Athletes ends when ESPN’s SportsCentury panel of experts named Michael Jordan the 20th Century Athlete. Babe Ruth, the second greatest athlete of the century, will also be featured in a special hour-long edition. |
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